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My apartment building forced us into Charter/Spectrum "community wifi" and it's obnoxious. The speed is actually decent but they screw around with the traffic.
by leguminous 5y ago
My apartment building forced us into Charter/Spectrum "community wifi" and it's obnoxious. The speed is actually decent but they screw around with the traffic.
* Everyone is NATed. There's no option to upgrade to a dedicated IP address if this is a problem. STUN works, but some things don't. Nintendo Switch online play doesn't work and I haven't dug in to figure out why. They know it doesn't work and have said that they won't fix it.
* They intercept all (UDP/53) DNS queries. You can change your DNS servers and it won't make a difference because they will spoof 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 or whatever in response. They'll even spoof root servers, so you can get strange things like a "root server" serving you an A record for pages.github.com.
* Of course there is no IPv6 support.
* Everyone is on the same ESSID with the same PSK. I suspect someone could sniff their neighbors' traffic if they were motivated enough.
It would be nice to have some competition here.